Narissa Huntley, LCMHC

Narissa Huntley is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people understand themselves better so they can communicate more clearly and live more authentically. Her approach aims to make change feel possible and manageable for daily life.

She brings six years of direct counseling experience across many settings. That work includes independent practice, school-based support, home-based services, homeless shelters, and community mental health agencies. She has worked with kids, teens, and adults on concerns such as anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, trauma, and life transitions.

Narissa keeps sessions warm and interactive. Conversations are shaped by respect, sensitivity, and compassion without relying on stigmatizing labels. She combines client-centered ideas with cognitive behavioral, existential, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing tools to fit each person’s needs.

In practice she helps people build clearer communication, manage strong emotions, and handle stressful life changes. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, grief, anger, career questions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Practical skills and small steps are common parts of the work.

The first meeting is used to shape a plan based on goals and daily realities. Narissa works with clients to set realistic steps and to adjust pacing when life gets busy. She invites those ready for change to begin a steady process toward better functioning and greater self-understanding.

How these therapy approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what matters to the client. In sessions this looks like open dialogue that helps the person identify values, communication patterns, and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, behaviors, and feelings and introduces practical skills that can be tried between sessions to reduce anxiety or depression. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to manage stress and emotional reactivity.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals and day-to-day life. That may mean trying a skill-focused CBT exercise one week and a more reflective client-centered conversation the next, then adjusting based on what helps.

Confirm current session options before booking because the biography does not specify formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a full session isn't needed. Different approaches translate well to remote conversations: CBT lends itself to homework and skill practice, while client-centered and mindfulness work can be done through guided conversation and short exercises adapted to an online setting.